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It’s getting colder outside and urban mornings are increasingly starting with stretched “lubrication” from starters and thick smoke from the exhaust pipe. Why does the motor spin so
As soon as the thermometer was aware of the definitive end of summer, starting the engine in the “who will overpower whom” category turned heavy, almost hysterical from the moment of acquaintance. Editorial Mitsubishi Lancer also misses the hot days and has no intention of crawling on slippery and cold asphalt. Well, we will tackle the causes of furious laziness. And this is exactly her.
The starter turns the engine with difficulty and indicates a problem. Maybe the “launcher” is really tired? The second item on the list of doubts is the battery, which has been living with an 18-year-old generator for a year. It is possible that the first failed due to problems with the second. There are more questions than answers.
However, you should not start with measurements and repairs, but with the simplest, so we will “dance off the stove” and check the knot, which is rarely remembered – fixing the mass to the body. If dirt has entered the connection, corrosion or plaque has formed, then the starting currents will be lower than necessary, the starter will not get the “promised” and as a result the engine may not start. For these purposes, no special tools are required, just find the attachment point of the battery mass on the body, unscrew one screw and inspect the “terrain”.
Specifically, in our case, nothing was needed to diagnose and unscrew: a thick layer of dirt covered both the screw itself and the thread, there was water, under which a deeply oxidized contact was hidden. We have no more questions, we move on to the recovery procedures.
After clearing the place of deposits, we preemptively fill in WD-40 and unscrew the mass fixing bolt without damage: what kind of mixtures are there and what kind of magic do the Japanese use for their hardware – a sacrament, but even after almost two decades in Moscow salt, the screw did not rot, did not stick and did not fall apart. Miracle, nothing else.
After washing and brushing the wires and the screw, we go to the terminal itself. It is rusted and oxidized, no special composition will help here, so we clean the traces of corrosion with a fine sandpaper on the metal and reassemble it. There is an opinion on the Internet that the bodywork under the terminal should be cleaned to the bare metal, but this is not done “in the factory”. The Japanese engineer knows better, so we assemble it “as it was” and make sure to fill it with a special mixture for the terminals on top, which will prevent the appearance of oxides and corrosion in the future.
The very first post-operative start-up shows that the decision was right: Mitsubishi Lancer started up much happier and more fun, picking up the “load” much easier. We will definitely continue to monitor – it can’t be that simple.
But cleaning the mass, arranging the terminals and the “battery” itself is an important and indispensable condition for starting the engine in cold weather. In short, a necessary procedure for the long and cold Russian winter.
As soon as the thermometer was aware of the definitive end of summer, starting the engine in the “who will overpower whom” category turned heavy, almost hysterical from the moment of acquaintance. Editorial Mitsubishi Lancer also misses the hot days and has no intention of crawling on slippery and cold asphalt. Well, we will tackle the causes of furious laziness. And this is exactly her.
The starter turns the engine with difficulty and indicates a problem. Maybe the “launcher” is really tired? The second item on the list of doubts is the battery, which has been living with an 18-year-old generator for a year. It is possible that the first failed due to problems with the second. There are more questions than answers.
However, you should not start with measurements and repairs, but with the simplest, so we will “dance off the stove” and check the knot, which is rarely remembered – fixing the mass to the body. If dirt has entered the connection, corrosion or plaque has formed, then the starting currents will be lower than necessary, the starter will not get the “promised” and as a result the engine may not start. For these purposes, no special tools are required, just find the attachment point of the battery mass on the body, unscrew one screw and inspect the “terrain”.
Specifically, in our case, nothing was needed to diagnose and unscrew it: a thick layer of dirt covered both the screw itself and the thread, there was water, under which a deeply oxidized contact was hidden. We have no more questions, we move on to the recovery procedures.
After clearing the place of deposits, we preemptively fill in WD-40 and unscrew the mass fixing bolt without damage: what kind of mixtures are there and what kind of magic do the Japanese use for their hardware – a sacrament, but even after almost two decades in Moscow salt, the screw did not rot, did not stick and did not fall apart. Miracle, nothing else.
After washing and brushing the wires and the screw, we go to the terminal itself. It is rusted and oxidized, no special composition will help here, so we clean the traces of corrosion with a fine sandpaper on the metal and reassemble it. There is an opinion on the Internet that the bodywork under the terminal should be cleaned to the bare metal, but this is not done “in the factory”. The Japanese engineer knows better, so we assemble it “as it was” and make sure to fill it with a special mixture for the terminals on top, which will prevent the appearance of oxides and corrosion in the future.
The very first post-operative start-up shows that the decision was right: Mitsubishi Lancer started up much happier and more fun, picking up the “load” much easier. We will definitely continue to monitor – it can’t be that simple.
But cleaning the mass, arranging the terminals and the “battery” itself is an important and indispensable condition for starting the engine in cold weather. In short, a necessary procedure for the long and cold Russian winter.
Source: Avto Vzglyad
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